Quick Wins to Instantly Boost B2B Web Leads outlines 9 quick wins that B2B companies can implement to boost their web leads. The quick wins include growing email lists, optimizing homepage keywords, developing a corporate fact sheet, creating a lead magnet, getting media exposure through HARO, supercharging blog content, launching remarketing campaigns, adding online chat, and running surveys with Google Survey. Implementing these quick wins requires minimal work but can deliver results through increased traffic, leads and sales.
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Quick Win #1: Grow your Email List
Get serious on organically
growing company email
marketing lists
Email conversion rates are higher than
from other B2B marketing channels.
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Quick Win #1: Grow your Email List
Buying Lists
Never Works
The challenge: customers are
reluctant to provide their email
addresses before they are
ready to engage.
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How to Build Your
Opt-In List
Quick Win #1: Grow Your Email List
โข Companies need to work hard on
building their email lists because they
convert. Buying lists never work
โข Add a scroll-triggered email sign-up
form on key pages of your site.
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Quick Win #1: Grow Your Email List
โข Run a remarketing campaign and drive
visitors back to an irresistible offer that is
only available providing an email
โข Request an email in exchange for
selected, high-value content (ebooks,
guides, etc.) that you will email to them
โข Provide awesome tools in exchange for
offering full access when prospects
provide their email.
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Work Effort
Quick Win #1: Grow Your Email List
One-Time project to design pop-up & ads:
โข Estimate $500.
One-Time fee to license or program pop-up:
โข 3rd Party SumoMe ListBuilder plugin: $350/year
โข Or, in-house support.
Monthly Remarketing Campaign:
โข Pricing: set-up and ad fees depends on
complexity.
GURU TIP
Include email
list sign-ups as
a conversion
goal in Google
Analytics.
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Quick Win #2: Keywords, Keywords, Keywords
Use your companyโs
primary keywords on
the homepage โ in
HTML Text
Include the companyโs most relevant keyword
phrases on the homepage โ in the right way.
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Quick Win #2: Keywords, Keywords, Keywords
Help Google know what
your most important
web pages are about
Use the primary keyword phrases for which you
want to be found as a central focus of the page.
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The Right Way to
Add Keywords to
the Home Page
Quick Win #2: Keywords, Keywords, Keywords
Include the primary keywords as a
core page theme along with its
modifiers and related synonyms in a
natural manner within the content.
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Quick Win #2: Keywords, Keywords, Keywords
Include Keywords inโฆ
โข Page titles and subheadings
โข Call-to-Action links
โข In hyperlinks pointing to the
homepage
โข Within the title and the meta
description tag.
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Use Googleโs free
Keyword Planner
to identify the
best keywords for
keyword
optimization.
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Work Effort
Quick Win #2: Keywords, Keywords, Keywords
One-Time writing effort to insert keywords into content:
โข Typically in-house support.
One-Time fee to update website content:
โข Low cost programmer or in-house resource
โข Hire external resources from UpWork.com.
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Quick Win #3: Develop a Corporate Fact Sheet
Every site needs a
corporate fact sheet
available in an
easily-shared format
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Quick Win #3: Develop a Corporate Fact Sheet
Fact sheets are a
powerful way to
communicate the
companyโs key message
in a shareable format
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Quick Win #3: Develop a Corporate Fact Sheet
โข Your companyโs corporate fact sheet
can become the most-downloaded
asset on your website. Try it!
โข Fact sheet downloads show a high level
of engagement and are often
circulated by a prospect evaluating
your services
โข For ideas, search in Google for
โcorporate fact sheet examplesโ.
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Ensure the Fact
Sheet download
is set up as a
conversion goal
in Google
Analytics.
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Quick Win #3: Develop a Corporate Fact Sheet
โข Launch with a two-page fact sheet and add
to the homepage and other key pages
โข Develop multi-language versions
โข Make the fact sheet available in PDF on high-
value pages without requiring registration
โข Incorporate your companyโs most important
keywords and a link back to your site within
this PDF document.
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Work Effort
Quick Win #3: Develop a Corporate Fact Sheet
One-Time writing effort:
โข In-House support or external resource - $1,000
One-Time fee to add to website:
โข Low cost programmer or in-house resource.
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Ensure that PDF
downloads are
set up as a
conversion goal
in Google
Analytics.
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Quick Win #4: Create a Lead Magnet to Attract Buyers
Attract Buyers. Excite
your visitors by offering
something they value
โ give it away for free!
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Quick Win #4: Create a Lead Magnet to Attract Buyers
When a company offers a tool or
piece of high-value content for free โ
without registration โ that content
engages visitors to view more
website pages.
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A lead magnet is
gold in driving
links and visitors
to your site, year
after year, at no
additional cost.
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Quick Win #4: Create a Lead Magnet to Attract Buyers
Solve an Annoying
Problem for your
Prospects
Identify a problem โ then create a
significant tool that solves it simply.
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GURU TIP
Tools that solve a
problem are
more likely to be
shared on social
media.
Quick Win #4: Create a Lead Magnet to Attract Buyers
โข Solve one big problem: make your tool
easy to use and understand. Complicated,
multi-page ROI tools donโt work
โข Provide instant results solving one specific
problem โ preferably one that people need
regularly
โข Use this tool as a content offering for a
remarketing campaign.
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Quick Win #4: Create a Lead Magnet to Attract Buyers
What is a Good
Example of a
B2B Lead
Magnet?
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Quick Win #4: Create a Lead Magnet to Attract Buyers
โข Software trials
โข Templates
โข Assessments and evaluations
โข Online course/tutorial โ by video โ offering a
30-day free trial
โข Checklists, toolkits, samples and cheat sheets
โข Educational podcasts
โข Best practice guides and benchmark reports
โข Resource lists
โข Worksheets, planners.
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Quick Win #4: Create a Lead Magnet to Attract Buyers
Useful: Hubspot Website Grader
โข https://website.grader.com/
Frequent-Use Tool: ToTheWeb Title & Meta Tag Check
โข https://totheweb.com/learning_center/tool-test-
google-title-meta-description-lengths/
Great examples of
Online Tools
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Quick Win #4: Create a Lead Magnet to Attract Buyers
Re-Usable Sample: Bid Sketch Sample Proposal
https://www.bidsketch.com/
Worksheet: Blog Tracking Customizable Template by ToTheWeb:
https://goo.gl/Tnzz5k
Great examples of
Online Tools
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Quick Win #4: Create a Lead Magnet to Attract Buyers
ToTheWeb created a free search optimization tool. This tool is
driving a continuing stream of high-quality visitors at no cost,
year after year.
Learn the impact on traffic from this lead magnet.
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Work Effort
Quick Win #4: Create a Lead Magnet to Attract Buyers
One-Time project to create the tool:
โข Simple tool - estimate $500 - $2,500
โข Use Upwork to locate programmers.
One-Time fee to integrate into site:
โข Medium cost depending on complexity
โ or done in-house.
Monthly Remarketing Campaign:
โข Pricing: low cost after campaign set-up
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Simple tools that
solve a problem
are more likely to
be shared on
social media.
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Quick Win #5: Help a Report Look Like an Expert
Help a Reporter
Out (HARO) offers
a fast way to gain
online exposure as
an expert
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Journalists need
your story. You
get exposure and
inbound links.
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Quick Win #5: Help a Reporter โ Look Like an Expert
HARO connects
journalists with expert
sources (you) to meet
journalistsโ deadlines
When your content gets published it builds
links back to your site โ and Google notices!
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GURU TIP
Create a cheat
sheet of re-usable
content and links
to your photo &
bio for quick
follow-up.
Quick Win #5: Help a Reporter โ Look Like an Expert
Think of HARO as offering FREE advertising
for your business in exchange for a rather
small effort.
โข To quickly answer journalist requests,
pull content from your website and
then lightly edit based on journalistsโ
questions.
โข The more effort you put into
responding, the more often your
content will be published.
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Quick Win #5: Help a Reporter โ Look Like an Expert
โข HARO requests are time-sensitive. To be
considered, respond within hours of receiving
the journalistโs request. To support this time
crunch, create a cheat sheet of content
answers to draw from
โข It builds inbound links: Every article ToTheWeb
provided to a journalist that was published
online linked back to our site from the
publisherโs site โ at no additional cost!
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Work Effort
Quick Win #5: Help a Reporter โ Look Like an Expert
Monthly 3rd party charges:
โข $19/month โ donโt go with the free version.
Monthly Maintenance:
โข Allocate 15 min a day for marketing staff to
respond to enquiries
โข Share this responsibility with other internal
content writers.
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Start a contest
with co-works to
award those who
get the most
content
published by
HARO.
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Quick Win #6: Super-charge your Blog Content
B2B marketers that use blogs receive 67%
more leads than those that do not.*
* Source: Hubspot
Blogs are the fastest way
for a company to expand
its footprint on the web
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Blogs are inexpensive
to produce and donโt
need corporate
approval to launch
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Quick Win #6: Super-charge your Blog Content
Identify topics that
have been popular
in the past in terms
of sharing
Search for popular posts your
competitors have written.
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Quick Win #6: Super-charge your Blog Content
In-depth blog posts (over 1,000 words in
length) often do better than short posts
โข Write content with a conversational tone
โข Think โevergreenโ educational content:
o Blogs have high bounce rates โ add
strong Calls-to-Action
o Improve engagement by adding videos
and images.
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Create high-
quality, valuable,
sharable in-depth
content. It will
drive buyers and
rank higher in
Google.
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Quick Win #6: Super-charge your Blog Content
Are you one of the many
bloggers who launch a
post without asking these
3 important questions?
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Quick Win #6: Super-charge your Blog Content
1. What keyword phrases do I want this blog
post to rank for?
2. Who do I want to read this post? Whoโs my
target audience?
3. What is the best call-to-action for this
content?
Use BuzzSumo.com to source topic popularity.
Use our customizable blog template to track
future blog ideas in the โIdeas Parking Lotโ tab.
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Keep every post
focused on the
right audience
and keywords.
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Work Effort
Quick Win #6: Super-charge your Blog Content
Writing & Editorial Support
โข Ghost writer - $200 or use in-house writer.
Images
โข Stock images - $100 or use in-house services.
Website Integration
โข Usually done in-house through a template.
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Include email list
sign-ups as a
conversion goal
in Google
Analytics.
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Quick Win #7: Launch a Google Remarketing Campaign
The perfect audience โ a
previous website visitor
you can entice back with
inexpensive ads that appear
where buyers are reading
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Bring them
back!
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Quick Win #7: Launch a Google Remarketing Campaign
They visited your site once - now you can
bring buyers back to your newest content.
With remarketing, you can show ads to
people who have visited your website or
watched your YouTube channel.
Itโs very low-cost advertising.
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Start with defining
who you will target
Quick Win #7: Launch a Google Remarketing Campaign
Determine the Pages You Will Tag
Are these current visitors who visited
high-value pages and never
converted or did they only visit
one select page?
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Remarketing is a
marketerโs low-
cost way of
driving high-
converting traffic.
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Quick Win #7: Launch a Google Remarketing Campaign
โข Tie Visitor Interests to Remarketing Content: Separate out
content to deliver to different types of visitors; a visitor on a
product detail page about search engine marketing
would not be remarketed with the same content as a visitor
to a blog about pay-per-click advertising
โข Create Ads. Static image ads work โ but animated ads
work better. Donโt forget that you can easily test different
messaging and ad styles
โข Establish the monthly budget.
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Work Effort
Quick Win #7: Launch a Google Remarketing Campaign
Text and Image Ad Design
โข Text ads typically written using an in-house writer
โข Image ad design - $500/set animated and static for
mobile and desktop.
Google Campaign Set-Up
โข Source an authorized Adwords consultant on Google.
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Quick Win #8: Add Online Chat to your Website
Your visitors have
questions โ make it
easy for them to
talk to you.
Before they leave...
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Quick Win #8: Add Online Chat to your Website
Online Chat works
24/7 โ even when
you donโt
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Keep your visitors
satisfied so they
will convert.
Make an impact
with prospects.
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Quick Win #8: Add Online Chat to your Website
Online chatโs biggest value is in
moving prospects more quickly
into the sales pipeline.
Chat software can operate on the site as a
feedback mechanism for after-hours visitor.
See example on ToTheWeb.com.
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Olark Chat
Itโs low-cost and
reduces
employee costs
in addressing
visitor needs.
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Quick Win #8: Add Online Chat to your Website
Add
Code
Train
Sales
Start
Talking to
Buyers
Monitor
Transcripts
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Have marketing
regularly read the
chat transcripts
to better
understand
buyer pain
points.
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Work Effort
Quick Win #8: Add Online Chat to your website
Chat Licensing Fees
โข Starts around $30/month/sales rep
(see Olark.com).
Chat Support
โข Generally supported by inside sales or customer
support teams.
Website Integration
โข Adding this piece of code is usually done in-house.
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Include email list
sign-ups as a
conversion goal
in Google
Analytics.
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Quick Win #9 โ Run a survey with Google
Survey
Gather data with
Googleโs low-cost
survey tool.
Collect data fast for a blog, article or an
Infographic.
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Surveys are a fast way
to gather data for
content creation.
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Quick Win #9 โ Take the Pulse of your Audience
With Google Survey, get 500 survey responses in
less than 48 hours for under $100. Try it now!
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Quick Win #9 โ Take the Pulse of your Audience
You supply the
questions โ
Google provides
the audience
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Work Effort
Quick Win #9 โ Take the Pulse of your Audience
Create the Survey
โข Generally created by internal
marketing staff.
Google Survey
โข $50-$100 depending on number of
responses needed.
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Test difference
audience groups
for the same
questions.
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Resources | Get the Job Done
Programming
โข Hire external resources from UpWork.com
Writing
โข Hire external resources from WritersAccess.com
Google Remarketing
โข Source an authorized Adwords consultant on Google.
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Resources | Get the Job Done
Online Chat Vendors
โข www.olark.com (more vendors here)
Ad Designers for Remarketing
โข Independent design talent: www.99Designs.com
โข Design agencies: www.27id.com.au | www.mediacoredesign.com
โข Favorite stock images: www.istock.com
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Guest Blogging
Free B2B Tools + Articles
Test Submitting Material for a TechCrunch Guest Column
โข http://techcrunch.com/got-a-tip/
Guest Blogging Ideas
โข http://feldmancreative.com/2015/01/benefits-of-guest-blogging/
Podcast on Guest Blogging
โข http://feldmancreative.com/2016/02/amplify-your-audience-by-guest-blogging/
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Lead Generation
Free B2B Tools + Articles
Turn Clicks Into Customers โ Start at the Homepage
โข https://totheweb.com/learning_center/improve-lead-generation
Establish Website Relaunch Goals That You Can Measure
โข https://totheweb.com/learning_center/defining-goals-for-lead-generation/
The Power of Online Tools to Drive Targeted Traffic Year-Over-Year
โข https://totheweb.com/blog/2016/01/b2b-lead-generation-the-power-of-
online-tools-to-drive-targeted-web-traffic-year-over-year/
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SEO
Free B2B Tools + Articles
Simple Data-Driven Strategies to Fast-Track Lead Generation
โข https://totheweb.com/blog/2015/10/simple-data-driven-strategies-fast-track-lead-
generation/
SEO Content Template (Word Doc)
โข https://totheweb.com/learning_center/sample-content-document/
Search Engine Spider Simulator (Tool)
โข https://totheweb.com/learning_center/tools-search-engine-simulator/
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visitors into leads
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